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Children in Library

Date: 1938
Description: Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap...
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Agricultural Extension Department Library

Date: 1915
Description: Women sitting in the library of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department.
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Employees Reading inside Deering Works Club Library

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Description: Factory workers reading in the Deering Works Club library. A librarian appears to be checking books in and out to a line of employees.
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Employees Reading in Deering Works Club Library

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Description: Office(?) workers reading in the library at the Deering Works Club. In the background the librarian (seated at desk) appears to be checking books in and ou...
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Madison Public Library

Date: 11 15 1945
Description: Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The view shows the Reference Room, Information Desk, one librarian and two patrons.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Librarian

Date: 05 1896
Description: The office of Historical Society Librarian Minnie Oakley in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. From 1866 to 1883 the Historical Society occupied the entire...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Stacks of the Historical Society Library

Date: 05 1896
Description: Minnie Oakley and Florence Baker Hayes (reaching for a book), two Historical Society librarians, during the period when the Society was housed in the South...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Librarian

Date: 1892
Description: Minnie Oakley, assistant librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at her desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photogra...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of Historical Society Librarian

Date: 1892
Description: Emma Hawley, a Historical Society librarian, at her desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. After the Society purchased its first type...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Historian

Date: 1900
Description: Historian Emma Helen Blair, who supervised the Historical Society's maps and manuscripts collection during the 1890s and who aided the editorial projects o...
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Librarian with Library Books

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Description: Woman, probably a librarian, paging through a book from a crate stamped "Wisconsin Free Library Commission, Madison, Wis." Several other books are stacked ...
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Madison Free Library

Date: 11 20 1947
Description: At the Madison Free Library, 206 North Carroll Street, Gerhard K. Gabriel is looking at books with Evelyn Miller, the reference librarian, looking on.
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Sturgeon Bay Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Sturgeon Bay Public Library. Prominent elements are reading tables, librarian's desk, bookshelves.
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Children Reading in Library with Librarian Looking On

Date: 1938
Description: A group of children sit at tables in a library reading books and magazines while a librarian looks on from her circulation desk. When it opened in 1938, th...
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Sturgeon Bay Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Sturgeon Bay Public Library. In the room are reading tables, two carved wood columns, a fireplace, bookshelves, and a nine-drawer card...
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Sturgeon Bay Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Sturgeon Bay Public Library. Library opened in 1913 with a gift of $12,500 from Andrew Carnegie. In the room are reading tables, books...
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Superior Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Superior Public Library. One doorway frames a woman (librarian?) working at an eight-sided librarian's desk. A picture of Andrew Carne...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Three members of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club, which is celebrating National Business Women's Week, look at a shelf of books. They ar...
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Danielle Trussoni

Date: 2010
Description: Danielle Trussoni signs "Angelology" for Dave and Rose Marcou, the photographer's parents, at La Crosse Central High School.
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Questions about Christmas Gifts

Date: 12 30 1953
Description: Helen Jansky, head of the circulation department at the Madison Free Library, displays a few of the books used to help library patrons use their Christmas ...

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